CONTENTS

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INTRODUCTION

Plantations in the Climate Change debate

Sinks that stink
Compensating for emissions through carbon sinks: A cheat's charter
Climate Change: The lesson from Lyon
$inks: Who wins, who loses?
Forests better than plantations, even as carbon sinks
Research findings say planting trees would increase global warming
Biodiversity also better than monocultures from a climate perspective
Global warming: More plantations or more will to reduce emissions?
Capturing Carbon: Dilemmas for Forest Peoples
The inclusion of sinks has sunk the Kyoto Protocol
SinksWatch: An NGO initiative to scrutinize tree plantation carbon sinks projects

International Processes and Actors

Do you believe in Planted Forests?
The plantations' issue in the agenda of the World Bank's FPIRS
For the FSC Plantations are not forests
WRM Comments on the FSC's Principle on Plantations
The ITTO raves about plantations
The Greening of Corporations
FAO's “forests” or how to cheat at patience
The UNFF must acknowledge that plantations are not forests

Local Struggles and Impacts: Africa

Cameroon: Tree plantations, A false alternative to deforestation
Cameroon: Oil palm, people and the environment
Congo, R.: Shell's eucalyptus plantations now provide even fewer jobs
Côte d'Ivoire: Increasing conflict between smallholders and oil palm estates
Ghana: The documented impacts of oil palm monocultures
Ghana: “Promissory” reforestation plans end up in unemployment
Kenya: Pollution and deforestation caused by Pan African Paper Mills
Liberia: Concerns over World Bank's promotion of rubber plantations
Nigeria: Malaysian corporation to invest in palm oil production
Nigeria: Palm oil deficit in a traditional palm oil producing country
South Africa: Nearing one million hectares of FSC certified plantations
South Africa: Tree plantations render corporation profits but fire, damages and death for the people
South Africa: Timber industry and not medicinal plant gatherers behind forest loss
Tanzania: Another case of Norwegian CO2lonialism
Uganda: Carbon sinks and Norwegian CO2lonialism
Zambia: Good or bad news on forestry?

Local Struggles and Impacts: The Americas

Latin American Network Against Tree Monocultures is born
Argentina: Oil companies try to “green” their image
Argentina: Forest loss and plantations in two provinces
Argentina: A shady carbon sink project
Argentina: The “forests of silence” or the pine plantations at the Yungas
Brazil: The marriage of Stora Enso and Aracruz
Brazil: The short memory of Veracel and the power of Aracruz
Brazil: The option between family-based agriculture and giant Aracruz Celulose
Brazil: Challenging Aracruz Celulose's power
Brazil: Growth does have limits, and scale is truly an issue
Brazil: While the people are roused to indignation, Aracruz celebrates
Brazil: Research questions FSC certification of two plantations
Brazil: Civil society letter to the Prototype Carbon Fund on Plantar's eucalyptus plantations
Brazil: Stora Enso and Aracruz plan the world's biggest pulp mill
Brazil: NGOs request wide debate on the expansion of tree plantations
Brazil: The need to avoid eucalyptus causing the same damage in Sao Paulo as it has done in Minas Gerais
Chile: True forests
Chile: Wine production threatened by pulp mill project
Chile: Tree monocultures threaten unique forest type
Chile: Repression or solution to the Mapuche-forestry company confrontation?
Chile: Playing God with trees for money making
Chile: Environmental organisation questions FSC standards for plantations
Chile: Mapuche defend their land from forestry companies
Colombia: “Tailor-made” legislation for Smurfit
Colombia: Perverse economic incentive for oil palm plantation
Colombia: Anti-trade union policy in oil palm plantations
Colombia: Oil palm plantation project threatens biodiversity in the Choco
Costa Rica: The dangers of tree monoculture “forests”
Costa Rica: Japanese dollars to promote monoculture tree plantations
Costa Rica: The slow death of large-scale monoculture eucalyptus plantations
Ecuador: Oil palm in the devastated Garden of Eden
Ecuador: Eucalyptus plantations in the Province of Esmeraldas
Ecuador: The people said no to plantations at a ministerial meeting
Mexico: Oil palm and the different meanings of Chiapas
Mexico: Forestry Plan prepared by Finns
Mexico: Opposition to forestry plan prepared by Finnish consultancy firm
Mexico: The door is open to “neo-liberal” tree plantations
Nicaragua: The adoption of the “Chilean plantation model”
Nicaragua: US United Fruit, oil palm and forest destruction
Uruguay: What is FSC certifying?
Uruguay: Inhuman working conditions at a Chilean forestry company plantation
USA: Pulping the South… of the USA
USA: Where plantations are clearly not forests
USA: Kinkos says no to genetically engineered trees
Venezuela: Increasing difficulties for Smurfit

Local Struggles and Impacts: Asia

Burma: Forced labour in oil palm plantations
Burma/Thailand/Laos: Colonial forestry - then and now
Cambodia: Oil Palm Plantations
Cambodia: Eucalyptus plantations and pulp production threaten forests and rivers
Cambodia: Rubber and palm oil plantations impact on local communities
China: UPM-Kymmene and APRIL, The Chinese-Indonesian connection
China: Exporting deforestation and promoting tree monocultures
China: Following the trite pattern of monoculture tree plantations
India: The World Bank's “Revised Forest Strategy” under challenge
Indonesia: The bitter oil palm harvest
Indonesia: Exploring the past and future of oil palm
Indonesia: A new victim related to Indorayon
Indonesia: The pulp and paper sector's unsustainable growth
Indonesia: Pulp and paper industry menace in South Kalimantan
Indonesia: Million hectare oil palm plantation programme in Jambi
Indonesia: WWF report links oil palm plantations to widespread deforestation
Indonesia: Report on paper industry's abuses on human rights
Indonesia: Reopening of Indorayon pulp mill encounters strong local opposition
Japan: Paper industry involved in genetic engineering of eucalyptus
Laos: Subsidies for Swedish profits in the forestry sector
Laos: Asian Development Bank subsidising deforestation
Laos: Freedom of information, industrial tree plantations and the ADB
Laos: Secrets, lies and tree plantations
Malaysia: Resistance against logging and oil palm in Sarawak
Malaysia: Campaign against plantation and pulp mill project in Sabah
Malaysia: The plight of women workers in oil palm plantations
Thailand: Sino-Thai eucalyptus project facing opposition
Thailand: Massive eucalyptus plantations planned
Thailand: FSC should revoke Forest Industry Organisation certificate
Thailand: Eucalyptus, encroachment, deforestation and pollution linked to pulp and paper company
Vietnam: Whose trees? Five million hectare “reforestation” programme
Vietnam: Carbon sink plantations to avoid emission reductions in Australia
Vietnam: Massive plantations ahead
Vietnam: Construction of Kontum pulp and paper mill suspended

Local Struggles and Impacts: Oceania

Aotearoa/New Zealand: Opposition to genetically engineered trees
Aotearoa/New Zealand: A debatable certification
Aotearoa/New Zealand: Changing ownership and management of state owned plantations
Australia: “Carbon sink” plantations invade Tasmania
Australia: Tasmanian farms which fed people replaced by farms which feed woodchip mills
Fiji: A coup d'état sparked off by a mahogany plantation
Hawaii: Are eucalyptus the only possible crop in Hamakua?
Papua-New Guinea: Incentives to oil palm plantations
Papua New Guinea: The impacts of British-promoted oil palm monocultures
Papua New Guinea: Forests saved against logging and oil palm plantation

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